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[audience applause]
[doorbell rings]
- Oh, that must be my blind date
who I invited over for dinner.
Better get the door.
Todd says she's very interesting...
I can't wait to find out.
Here goes!
- Hi, I'm Felicia,
you must be jokin'.
- What?
Oh, no,
you mean Joaquin!
[audience member coughs]
Come on in, Felicia.
Take a seat.
- Where should I take it?
[silence]
[audience member grunts]
- What?
Oh, no,
I meant sit in it.
Say, would you like a soda?
- Sure!
Oh wait, I just remembered, I don't drink soda.
[silence]
[alarm blares]
- What the?
Show, we have a problem.
- Talk to me.
- We've got a bunch of FJMAs.
- In English, please.
- Failed Joke Master Alarms.
They're goin' off all over the place.
- Audience, can you confirm that joke failure?
Arvin: Uh, roger that, Show,
I've got no reaction.
- Show, I'm reading a triple joke failure,
nothing's hit.
- That's impossible!
The sketch was framed perfectly,
the game moves were established.
- Show, Ike and Jetta's heartrates are skyrocketing,
they're starting to freeze up out there.
- Show, the sketch is tanking.
- These have to be false readings,
the sketch is good.
- This isn't anything
we're even remotely prepared for.
- Look at 'em,
the audience doesn't even like it.
[alarms blaring]
- Ike and Jetta are showing the early signs
of performance anxiety,
if this continues--
- All right, quiet down people, quiet down.
One at a time.
- Look at them!
They are not even saying their lines!
All right, they're panicking!
I'm sorry, but the sketch is not working.
They are at an eight on that gauge,
and when that eight reaches a ten,
we're gonna get impaired judgement
and profound weeping.
- All right, we gotta calm them down.
CAPCOM, let 'em know
that we're trying to think of options
to save the sketch.
- Copy.
Jetta, okay, I know you can't speak
in front of the audience,
but blink if you can hear me.
Good, now listen,
we are not gonna leave you out there, okay?
Hang tight.
- [whispers] Help us.
- Okay people,
I want everybody to alert your joke teams,
wake up anybody you need and get 'em in here.
Let's not make this any worse with bad pitches.
- All right.
Dalton: Ramirez, get on the phone!
[chatter]
[objects clattering]
- Okay people, listen up.
The people upstairs have handed us this one
and we've gotta come through.
- These are duplicates of everything on set,
we've gotta come up with something funny
using nothing but that.
[objects clattering]
- I think we let it play out, trust the material.
- No, it's useless, just pull them outta there,
just end the sketch now!
- Are you kidding?
Without a laugh?
Look at them,
do you have any idea the psychological damage
that that will cause?
[Ike whimpering]
They will have stagefright for the rest of their lives.
- Okay, so that's not an option.
We're not losing either of them.
We have to get them outta there with their dignity intact,
which means we get them outta there with a laugh.
Garet: Show!
Jessica: We think we've got something.
Okay, Ike says,
"Can I treat you to hors d'oeuvres?"
And then Jetta says...
- [high pitched] "Oh, well, if you're paying!"
- See?
'Cause she thinks to treat means to pay.
[single laugh]
- Can't someone think of a funny joke
to end this sketch?
[panicked chatter]
- I got something.
I got something!
In order for an audience to laugh,
they require a comedic stimulation
of the cerebral cortex by specific words
that use a well-defined narrative structure.
Otherwise known as jokes.
Or...
something unexpected!
[doorbell rings]
[relieved gasps]
[horn honking]
[audience gasping]
[audience laughter]
- Yes!
[all cheering]
You did it!
[cheering]
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